In a message dated 12/9/02 3:44:54 PM Pacific Standard Time,
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> Even for places where MPE needs enhancement, it may be easier to add this
> functionality via the emulator rather than trying to change and rebuild MPE
> from scratch (assuming you could get the source code).  The emulator can
> augment and alter the behavior of MPE in ways that would be difficult or
> impossible to do in MPE itself.
>

Assuming "MPE" means all the HP software supplied with a HP-3000 here's an
easy task to do:  Add some new features to FORMSPEC and all related areas of
VPLUS.  If I had the source code, I could do that.  So could many of the
people on HP3000-L.  Who wants to try the simplest change to FORMSPEC without
any source code????

An emulator helps keep up with the ever changing hardware world but it does
nothing for lots of other areas of HP-3000 software.

Wayne